Antiskidding device.



E. FINKNG.

ANTISKIDDING DEVICE. APPLOATION FILED MAY 2o, 1910.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1,

Patented sept. .1?, 15912.

E. FINKING.

ANTISKIDDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILM) MAY Z0, 1910. 97?5 Y Patented Sept. 1'?, 1912.

I. Fig@ Figa@ can be operated by occupants of either the i front or the rear seat of the car.

In the place of the sword-shaped point g on the brake' shoes a hatchet-shaped member mounting of any other parts.

It Will of'courseAbeunderstood that the invention is not to be limitedto the .construe` tional forms of the anti-skidding means hereinbefore described, or illustrated, but that it could be used in providing a -motor car or like vehicle with a ground brake of which the parts engaging With the ground are provided-With cutting or penetrating parts or edges so' as to etlectually enter the ground and thereby to avert the danger of slidding. I

Wlhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A11 anti-skidding device comprising a pair of' pivoted levers carrying cutting brakeshoes and supported at opposite sides of the vehicle to which the device is applied, springs for holding the levers and their shoes normally in an elevated position, a rock-shaft to extend transversely' beneath the vehicle and formed With a longitudinally extending groove and provided at each end with a depending Crank-arm` lever Veach provided en its side With a grooved sheave, a cable lyingin the groove, of said shaft and in engagement With the' grooved sheaves on the crank-arm levers and attached to the'pivoted brake-shoe carrying' levers, and an operating lever Connected Withthe rock-shaft for lowering the shoe carrying levers in opposition to the tension of said springs, the springs being operable torestore the parts including the' operatingv lever to normal position on release of the operating lever, substantially as described.

2. An anti-skidding device comprising aV pivoted lever provided With a brake-shoe having a cutting-edge, a spring to normally hold the shoe and its carryingv lever in an elevated position, a with a crank-arm lever operatively connected with the bralrefshoe lever, an operating lever sleeved to the rock-shaftand having a slotted hub receiving a pin connected to the rock-shaft, and a second operating lever connected with the crank-arm lever of the rock-shaft to enable the shoe carrying lever to be operated by either of said two operating levers as' desired, substantially as described.

ln testimony whereof l affix my signa? ture in the presence of two Witnesses.

ERNST FINKING,

. Witnesses z MORITZ SPREER, RUDOLPH Fmoxn.

rock-shaft provided 

